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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Sexual harassment.

Article L1153-2

…f sexual harassment or reported such acts, may be subject to the measures mentioned in Article L. 1121-2. The persons mentioned in the first paragraph of this article benefit from the protections prov…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions of secondment.

Article L1262-2

…itory may temporarily second employees: 1° To a user undertaking established on national territory; 2° To a user undertaking established outside national territory and temporarily carrying out an acti…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Quasi-regulation

Article L3211-2

…exercised jointly with other contracting authorities, under the conditions laid down in article L. 3211-3; 2° Or another legal entity controlled by the same contracting authority, provided that the le…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Plant breeding

Article L623-28

…sequences of the infringement, including the loss of profit and loss suffered by the injured party; 2° The non-material damage caused to the injured party; 3° And the profits made by the infringer, in…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 210 C

1. The provisions of articles 210 A and 210 B apply to transactions exclusively involving legal entities or bodies liable for corporation tax. 2. These provisions only apply to mergers, demergers and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Food, advertising and promotion.

Article L2133-2

Photographs for commercial use of models, as defined inarticle L. 7123-2 of the French Employment Code, whose body appearance has been modified by image processing software in order to make the model'…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Operating conditions.

Article L4151-2

…e High Authority for Health and the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products;2° Administer certain vaccines, the list of which and, where applicable, the persons likely to benef…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1 : Commission du cinéma d'art et d'essai

Article 231-38

…are : 1° The "Ile-de-France, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion" regional committee; 2° The "Grand-Est, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes" regional committee; 3° The "Occita…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3 : Conversion into a grant of part of the advances granted to finance the initial installation of digital projection equipment in cinemas

Article 916-24

…cinematographic entertainment establishments under the scheme provided for in articles 19-1 and 19-2 of decree no. 98-750 of 24 August 1998 relating to financial support for the showing of certain ci…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: The National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-25

…he extract of registration in the trade and companies register for operators located outside France;2° The subject of the appeal;3° The name and address of the title holder if the applicant does not h…

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